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Grant, I didn't mean that in the syntactical-grammatical-morphological double negative sense, but the implication is the same. It's like saying, for example, "If you don't eat my lunch, I won't hit you," which implies, "If you do eat my lunch, I will hit you." (Sorry, that's not a great example, but I'm hungry.) Is masturbation a form of homosexuality? |
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Amazing statistics, there. |
+ Politics and power are a form of masturbation.
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I try never to miss an openning. ;) |
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Kobe beef tastes weird.
Catherine Zeta-Jones can't act. And neither can Scarlett Johansson. Multiple Personality Disorder is a crock. |
Soccer sucks.
Prime Rib is the most disgusting meat on earth. Adam Sandler is NOT funny. Neither is Will Farrel, or any of their genre. We don't need to worry about Mexican immigrants; it's the Asians we need to keep our eye on. |
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Pride of ancestry is another one of those "really only allowable to peoples of a medium tan shade or darker", at least here in America. Black Pride, Latino Pride, Assorted Flavors of Asian Pride, all laudable ... not so for any European culture, unless of course, you're Irish on March 17th ... or you're not but you just really want to get drunk. |
Wolf can be trusted to hang onto a loaded side arm.
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imho, the last good SNL cast was the 1985-1989 cast. There were, of course, good people in subsequent casts but for the most part it got pretty stupid. I can't even watch the last few years' shows. I guess genre wasn't the right word. I thought about stealing Bri's word "ilk" but didn't want to be a copycat! :p |
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I'm supposed to own something that happened to your ancestors?
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*cough* humor *cough*
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Ooooohhhhhh.... got it. Long day. Sorry.
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not a great way to introduce myself, but i think the age of consent should be lowered in the us
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Its 14 in Hawaii.
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Yeah, but 17 in New York. Some uniformity would be nice.
Welcome to the Cellar, A HERRING! :D |
perhaps my least popular opinion (if we're talking even remotely about something that might actually come to pass) is that, IF we're going to have the death penalty and claim that it's a deterrent to violent crime... then the executions ought to be done in public, and not in any particularly 'humane' way, not torture mind you, but something painful, quick and gruesome. ie. guillotine, hanging, firing squad etc.
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I'm for that. It's probably more popular than you think.
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We are the bad guys in Iraq & Iraqi insurgents are doing exactly what we would be doing in their place (not those coming into the country just to kill US soldiers and Iraqi police). We illegally invaded a nation that was no threat to us and are occupying a sovereign nation without cause and are plotting to steal their natural resources, the actual reason we invaded them to begin with, the only reason we invaded them.
The US already has one of the most liberal immigration systems in the world (not my opinion, fact), most nations are far more difficult to become citizens of, if at all. IMO, we should have and should currently be strictly enforcing our immigration law and should, in NO WAY feel bad about that because there is NOTHING racist about it. Most of the nations and the main nation that bitches about our immigration laws are FAR more strict than we have EVER been about own own border and immigration policies and need to just shut-up until they practice what they preach. |
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As a guy, I find nothing wrong with the color pink...it's one of my favorites.
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As a very large man, I don't feel feminine at all holding a woman's purse for her. If YOU do feel odd about it, then you're hiding something from yourself, or you're a short person. In which case you don't have any reason to live anyway.
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Holding a purse is one thing...holding it for over an hour while sitting at a bra shop is another situation entirely. :D
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"illegal"? really? Tell that to Congress who allowed it and the UN who santioned it. "Plotting to steal their natural resources"? HA!!!! really? How much of their oil have we taken and transfered to the US in the last 5 years??? Or maybe you were talking about the sand. That's it! We are taking their sand!:rolleyes: |
Another. Prisoners who go to prison for hard time should do hard time. No TV, no magazines, no weights, no play time, no pictures, no letters, no packages, no nothing. All violent and felony repeat criminals should be sent to large high capacity prisons in Northern Alaska or on an island similar to Alcatraz. Full sentances must be served with no time for parole.
Death sentances should be carried out with in 12 months of sentence. And as another poster put it, in full view of the public. |
Again, thanks for the response to this thread, people. Excellent. :thumb:
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There are no bad words. There are inappropriate ways to use words, and societal norms as well as grammar can define inappropriate, but there are no bad words.
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really, if you believe this you are beyond help. or maybe you really are a mercenary who does the dirty work for cash and to hell with anyone it affects. |
see! unpopular!
although, he(?) does have a point there. I think it's less about actual physical resources than financial ones. and the way the whole thing went down.. the bulk of the american people were scared shitless and wanted blood (atleast from Afghanistan). and I have been against attacking Iraq from day one... since the first 90's era invasion in fact. |
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In my opinion governments are something that the human race could easily do without and in the course of time will grow out off.
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Calling a whore a "sex worker" doesn't make him/her any less of a whore.
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Another of my unpopular opinions. |
Actually, I agree with that one, Rzkenrage. I think what a person wants to do with their own body is their choice.
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If we have affirmative action based on skin color, then we should extend it to people with other physically undesirable qualities (in the opinion of our culture in general [I don't subscribe to the same standards :P]). So, fat people, short people, ugly people and people with visible body-mods should get benefits under the same legislation as minorities.
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You know, they have done study after study after study and determined that it is NOT race which indicates grades, employment, or any other measure of success, but rather socioeconomic status.--i.e., it's not that minorities are held down, it's that poor people are held down and minorities are statistically more likely to be poor.
I know this looks like thread drift, but it's not, see: I think that if we're really going to attempt to "level the playing field," (which is impossible IMHO) then affirmative action should actually be in the form of an economic rating. Give young adults a score based on their parents' tax forms, and schools/employers can give preference to the lower numbers as they see fit. After the age of 25, you've had enough years to recover and you're on your own. |
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The purpose of grants is to assist lower income families. Though there are system players, financial aid administrators try hard to follow the regulations as well as understand the individual challenges that each family may face. In the end, however, we have to abide by DOE regs. I'm a liberal with closet conservative tendencies beyond my control, because of what I see every day. For a better synopsis of my view on the subject you can refer to this post, and the one after that. As for scholarships, though some are based solely on need, most are academic or a combination of academics and need. Scholarships are governed by the donors; as administrators we just have to abide by the donor's wishes. |
I know many kids of rich parents who were tossed out on their ass at 18, some who's parents steal from them to this day even though they have more money than their kids still. Knew several of them bustin'-it through college right along with me.
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There's an idea floating around Whitehall at the moment to introduce some kind of check on university applicants to see if their parents have a degree.....idea being to try and increase the number of kids from lower income/less educated households getting into uni. Fucking studid idea if ever I heard one. Please for God's sake someone shoot our PM. Y'know we used to have a really good uni system over here. Any student who wanted to go to uni and had the a-levels to get in, was entitled to a grant to assist with living expenses and their tuition fees were covered by the state. It worked. It only stopped working when people got this idea that half the population should be attending university......brilliant...now a degree is worth what an a-level used to be and will just about get you a job in middle-management. Meanwhile the huge number of people who've been persuaded to get that degree whowould otherwise not, have encumbered themselves with huge debts.
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I'm torn on the degree issue. I think the more people that have the opportunity the better. Though I don't think anyone should feel obligated to get a degree.
I only went and completed school because "that's the good and proper thing to do." And now I want to go on for even more education. I actually think having the market value of a degree fall is a good thing. It just means that the baseline educational level of our population is rising. The bad thing is that academic standards are also being lowered. |
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Academic standards aren't static inert objects. When they're lowered dramatically, or arbitrarily, or improperly, it is a bad thing. Just decouple those two thoughts, and we're right in synch. |
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I love the idea of more people seeking education.....but not because it's the only way to get a decent job. I love the idea of more working class kids going to university....but not so they can do a degree in beauty therapy. We are selling these kids short, and charging them a fortune. As for the idea of checking whether or not applicants to university have university educated parents.....I should have explained that in more detail: the idea is that in order to strike the correct balance between those people who are from an advantaged background and those who aren't, universities should check whether or not their applicants' parents have a degree...this would mean that if your parents had a degree you may end up being refused a place. This would be regardless of your parents actual economic status or your actual advantages in life...the fact that your parents have a degree would place you in a particular category. So, all those workingclass people who struggled and went to university when they were young but never got more than an average wage at the end of it would be treated the same as the wealthy families for whom a degree is a standard accoutrement. |
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